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Tolkien and Irish Mythology - 3. The Courting of Emer

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IdylleSeethes
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Posted: Mon 24 Oct , 2005 5:18 am
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Thanks to Alatar for reminding me where I should be, and to everyone else for being so kind. I should be around more after Nov 1.

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Thanks for dropping back in IS.

Should we continue this or drop it due to lack of interest? I don't mind either way.

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No, no, please don't drop it. I remain very interested, just suffering a bit from lack of time, like everyone else. I haven't had a chance to read the next Chapter and not likely to get to it today.

But I still want to take up with Din the earlier discussion about Greek influence on early Celtic culture, and I'm very interested in the courtship story.

I was reading Tolkien's translation of Gawain and the Green Knight and found his description of Guinevere that was dumped almost word for word into the description of Arwen in the Hall of Fire when Frodo first sees her. I think these interwoven influences are tremendously interesting.
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